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She has a reputation as a spendthrift.spendthrift = someone who wastes money
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I'm a goddam spendthrift at heart. (source)
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Has my little spendthrift been wasting money again? (source)
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I needed gloves, certainly, and if I was going to play the part of the spendthrift wealthy tourist I would need to buy more than that.† (source)
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I'm a bit of a spendthrift, if you will.† (source)
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At the same time he was more of a carouser and spendthrift than ever.† (source)
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These visits to the zoo holding on to the hand of some conceited spendthrift suitor gave her a lifelong horror of enclosures, walls, cages, and isolation.† (source)spendthrift = someone who wastes money
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Grandfather would complain and talk of idleness and spendthrifts, but in the end he always agreed.† (source)
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He watched the yellow cabs sink into soulful dusk, that particular spendthrift light that falls dyingly on Park Avenue in the hour before people take leave of the office and become husbands and wives again, or whatever people become in whatever murmurous words when evenings grow swift and whispered.† (source)
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O gamblers and spendthrifts all!† (source)
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The change in him was like the change in a spendthrift when his attention is captured by something worth more than all his gold, worth more than all the baubles he has ever purchased; then, instead of scattering, he begins to assess and hoard and gather up; all that he has becomes valuable because all that he has may prove to be an unacceptable sacrifice.† (source)
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Let it suffice, that among spendthrifts I out-Heroded Herod, and that, giving name to a multitude of novel follies, I added no brief appendix to the long catalogue of vices then usual in the most dissolute university of Europe.† (source)
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Yet at no point did Jefferson's financial plight slow his spendthrift ways.† (source)
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Now you mustn't think that Thomas and I are spendthrifts.† (source)
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Under cover of their parasols, they examine Lady Spendthrift's new fur-trimmed coat or Mrs. Fading Beauty's attempt at looking younger than her days, her corset pulled to straining.† (source)
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I'm one of the worst spendthrifts that ever was born.† (source)
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